Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, Stephen P (1994) How much inequality can we explain? A methodology and an application to the USA. DARP (7). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.
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We develop two simple measures of how much inequality is explained by individual population characteristics or groups of characteristics, analogous to R2 in regression analysis. We investigate the measures' empirical implementation using several alternative theoretically consistent approaches to inequality decomposition. Results are illustrated using US PSID income data.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 1994 Frank A. Cowell and Stephen P. Jenkins |
| Divisions: | Economics STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 22:41 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2233 |
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